Daniel Saucedo
Director
Lucía Malandro and Daniel Saucedo founded a creative duo in 2018 while studying at the film school in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, with the aim of rescuing and creatively intervening in historical archives, both filmic and photographic. With an academic background in theater and self-taught experience in visual arts, they use film to explore the theatricality and audiovisual resources with which political systems construct large and small historical fictions.
After graduating from EICTV, they undertook the arduous task of rescuing the vast photographic and documentary collection contained in the Cuban criminal archives. Following this work, and having safeguarded thousands of unpublished photographs of Cuban history, they were awarded a scholarship to study a master’s degree related to the preservation and formal and creative use of film archives at the Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian.
During their five years of work, they have produced several audiovisual pieces that have been selected and exhibited at important international film festivals. They created the collective Archivistas Salvajes, focused on establishing the first Archive of Cuban Amateur and Independent Cinema, outside of the state industry.
